Broadband: 4G Mobile

Debate between Baroness Garden of Frognal and Lord Pearson of Rannoch

Thursday 21st June 2012 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Garden of Frognal]

There should be a cost only if an additional service is being provided that is of benefit to the consumers. People are normally prepared to pay for services that give them benefit. If any additional cost arises, that should be where it is.

[Lord Pearson of Rannoch]

My Lords, is the problem of living close to a mast permanent, or will it be sorted in due course? How will this affect long-term property prices?

[Baroness Garden of Frognal]

You probably need Mystic Meg to answer that one. All these things advance as technology advances, so the solutions to any problems advance as well. I cannot see why it should affect property prices. In extreme cases where people simply cannot continue to get Freeview reception, there will be provision for moving them to a different platform so that they continue to receive their television and broadband services. As to property prices, that probably needs to come under a different Question.

Social Mobility Strategy

Debate between Baroness Garden of Frognal and Lord Pearson of Rannoch

Tuesday 5th April 2011 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Garden of Frognal]

My Lords, we have not yet heard from UKIP. May I suggest that we do so and then hear from the noble Baroness?

[Lord Pearson of Rannoch]

My Lords, the House will be relieved to hear that this is not a European question. Does the noble Lord agree that teacher training is the soil in which the roots of our education system feed, and that it has been very unsatisfactory for many years, serving the poorest children worst? For instance, the average A-level attainment of those entering bachelor of education courses has often been as low as two Es at A-level, according to government Written Answers. I know that the Government are seeking to address this problem. Can the noble Lord give us any news of progress in this deep but fundamental area?